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English translation and introduction © Bryan Karetnyk 2018
‘Maître Rueil’ was first published in Chisla in Paris, 1931
‘Happiness’ was first published in Sovremennye zapiski in Paris, 1932
‘Deliverance’ was first published in Sovremennye zapiski in Paris, 1936
‘The Mistake’ was first published in Sovremennye zapiski in Paris, 1938
‘The Beggar’ was first published in Mosty in Munich, 1962
‘Ivanov’s Letters’ was first published in Novyi zhurnal in New York, 1963
First published by Pushkin Press in 2018
Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation (Russia)
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ISBN 13: 978–1–78227–402–5
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